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2014 College Football Power Rankings Heading into Week 10

In an effort to always bring you the best here at SBR, we've developed a new element to lend you a helping hand for your college football picks against the sportsbooks betting odds.

How these college football power rankings are created is with score-differentials, developed with a formula that that takes our number against the eventual outcome and adjust the power rankings accordingly from week to week. Our goal is to help our readers with a unique betting tool that could increase your understanding of all the teams and think just like college football handicappers.

While we have a modest variance in looking the college football odds, if you would like to play along, add four points to any home team. You can also see our Top 25, the listing is next to the particular team, using this formula.

You might notice that we still have Ole Miss as No. 1 and as opposed to typical polls, we are rating the strengths of the teams and with the Rebels having lost by just three points on the road at LSU, their actual number did decrease, but no other team was able to supplant them for the top spot.

The rest of our Top 5 in order includes, TCU, Alabama, Mississippi State and Georgia.

Power Ratings

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Power Ratings

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ACC

Big 12

Atlantic

Oklahoma (14)

97

99

Florida State (10)

100

101

West Virgina

83

94

Clemson (22)

93

95

Oklahoma State

89

86

Louisville

89

94

TCU (2)

89

105

NC State

83

80

Texas

90

87

Boston College

80

86

Baylor (12)

95

101

Wake Forest

81

73

Texas Tech

86

77

Syracuse

86

86

Kansas

79

74

Kansas State (17)

89

97

Coastal

Iowa State

83

83

Virginia Tech

89

85

Miami

88

93

Conference USA

North Carolina

89

85

East

Virginia

81

87

Marshall (15)

91

99

Georgia Tech

85

89

Mid. Tenn. State

79

79

Duke

86

91

Western Kentucky

75

78

Pittsburgh

86

88

Florida Int

70

74

Florida Atl.

78

77

Big Ten

UAB

70

73

East

Old Dominion

74

67

Ohio State (7)

94

103

Michigan State (8)

95

103

West

Penn State

88

89

North Texas

80

68

Michigan

92

85

Louisiana Tech

74

81

Maryland

87

88

UT- San Antonio

82

74

Indiana

85

81

Southern Miss

70

70

Rutgers

83

83

Rice

82

85

UTEP

70

75

West

Nebraska (13)

88

99

American Athletic

Wisconsin (23)

93

95

Tulane

78

73

Iowa

91

90

Central Florida

91

90

Minnesota

86

86

Houston

88

90

Northwestern

89

86

Cincinnati

87

83

Illinois

86

81

South Florida

76

72

Purdue

81

83

East Carolina

85

87

Connecticut

74

70

MAC

Tulsa

77

68

East

Temple

74

78

Ohio U.

78

69

Memphis

82

91

Massachusetts

65

70

SMU

80

60

Miami-Ohio

69

70

Kent State

73

66

PAC-12

Akron

76

74

North

Buffalo

73

69

Stanford (18)

96

97

Bowling Green

85

75

Oregon (6)

99

103

Washington

92

89

West

California

79

82

Northern Illinois

84

76

Oregon State

89

85

Toledo

82

79

Washington State

85

83

Western Michigan

71

80

Central Michigan

78

78

South

Ball State

75

77

USC (19)

95

97

Eastern Michigan

67

59

Arizona State (20)

88

95

Utah (25)

85

94

Mountain West

Colorado

80

78

West

Arizona (21)

87

95

Fresno State

86

76

UCLA

97

91

Hawai'i

74

73

Nevada

77

83

SEC

San Diego State

82

78

East

San Jose State

76

73

Georgia (5)

94

103

UNLV

76

68

South Carolina

93

91

Florida

91

89

East

Tennessee

86

87

Air Force

77

78

Kentucky

82

88

Boise State

90

92

Vanderbilt

84

77

Colorado State

83

86

Missouri

92

93

New Mexico

72

71

Utah State

86

86

West

Wyoming

75

71

Alabama (3)

99

104

LSU (12)

95

102

Sun Belt

Arkansas (24)

86

95

Troy

72

64

Ole Miss (1)

95

107

Texas State

72

70

Mississippi State (4)

90

103

UL Monroe

77

70

Auburn (11)

96

101

Arkansas State

80

80

Texas A&M

90

94

Louisiana

87

81

Georgia State

65

62

Independents

Idaho

71

63

Notre Dame (16)

91

97

South Alabama

78

77

BYU

89

85

New Mexico State

69

60

Navy

83

80

Appalachian State

66

65

Army

73

67

Georgia Southern

66

82

Sportsbook Review – Situation Conference Games of the WeekAAC – Last week we expressed Central Florida was undervalued and we were correct. We feel the same way about the Knights this time on the road at -10.5 compared to -16. Connecticut has been a good home underdog, but cannot score and UCF is improving offensively and wins the field position battle.

ACC – Pittsburgh is favored by three at home but we have Duke as an outright upset winner and our 13-8 ATS record backs it up in calling for the Blue Devils to win.

Big 12 – Kansas State is really coming on being so well coached by Bill Snyder and with Oklahoma State’s very young team wearing down, we like the Wildcats at -15 compared to the sportsbooks -12.

Big Ten – Nebraska failed to cover at home against Rutgers and we see more of the same from the Cornhuskers against Purdue in Lincoln, with our number three point’s lower.

C-USA – We had Rice at -8 and the sportsbooks were at -7.5, but those making college football picks lowered the Owls to -6. Let’s see who ends up being correct.

Independents – Often, Navy will give Notre Dame a hard time and we have no qualms with the Midshipmen three points lower than our -17. But with the Fighting Irish having two weeks to prepare for Middies option, they could win by more than expected.

MAC – Eastern Michigan has played better in recent weeks and they have been lowered as home underdogs against one of the main rivals in Central Michigan. However, CMU is playing better and should beat our number of -17.

MWC – We have Colorado State as a two-point larger favorite at San Jose State than the oddsmakers, but no argument since the Spartans have given the Rams troubles.

Pac-12 – We are 100 percent convinced UCLA is receiving too much credit at -6.5 over Arizona. Our view is this is coin flip for the winner.

SEC – Even we agree that Ole Miss at -9 over Auburn seems extreme, nonetheless, the Rebels at -1.5 feels a little too low. Somewhere in the middle sound accurate.

Sun Belt – We have Arkansas State at -13.5 at Idaho with the actual line around -17; however, the exact status of the Idaho starting quarterback is influencing this number.